Category: black book
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Black Book January: Video
For two days I was filming the making of a mandala. It was not a very enjoyable work: as I have the tripod on my desk, it’s legs limited the movement of my book (the book being quite large and stuck between the said legs), so I had to twist and turn, even to get…
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Black Book January: Update #6
I have two new finished mandalas in my Black Book. This is one: I started it weeks ago and then my white pen gave up and I did not have the ink to refill it, so I had to leave it and start something else. This week I reconnected with my white ink, so here…
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Black Book January: Update #6
Today we travelled to Slovenia, so there was no time for art at all in the morning, but I plan to squeeze some mandala time in the evening, after blogging and before Netflix. I can show you now a work in progress, the one I started yesterday: It was very cold in the house when…
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Black Book January: Update #5
I have finished another mandala today: This one was quick and easy. I used Sakura gel metallic pens and white Uni Ball pen. I was sitting by the swimming pool and drawing. It was a great day: swimming, sauna, art and resting all day long. I really needed it. I also started some meditation…
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Black Book January: Update #4
Today I finally completed this mandala: The yellow parts are actually gold gel pen, but it’s not photographing well. Yesterday we went to Austria to that outlet, did some little shopping, had lunch and came back to our hotel. We spent the afternoon in the pool and sauna. It’s good, there are other guests, but…
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Black Book January: Update #3
I’ve been working on this one mandala for several days now. I used white posca pen for contours, and had a lot of trouble with it. It did not want to work and I started to shake it and then the paint came out of it on top of my drawing. I managed to clean…
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Black Book January: Update #2
This morning I finished the mandala that took several days to do: There were large areas to color with color pencils and then doodles also took awhile. Color pencils make the surface waxy and slippery, so doodling with ink on top is not very easy. I made lots of mistakes, but I am rather…
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Black Book January
I did this challenge last year in January, I was probably inspired by #carveDecember and wanted to try something new and do it for a whole month. I called it Black Book January. Even a friend from Instagram joined and did several pieces. The goal of the challenge is to create something on black background.…
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Black Book Update: 16 September
I was almost late for work this morning because I got carried away trying to finish this one: Obviously I managed to finish and I was not late, but did not eat salad for breakfast because I did not have time to wash and cut… Ah well… Here is a detailed photo under artificial light with…
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Black Book Update 13 September
Did I tell you how much I enjoy drawing that circular pattern? LOL! You’ll have to bear with me, because more is certainly coming. It’s so easy to do and the effect is amazing. At least I feel it is calming me down. I could just watch it for hours…
Lucy’s coloring book 